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(Nagase) is a high school student who dropped out but is now going back to night school. He works at a metal shop type of place. His father died and his mother abandoned him, so he is living alone, going to work and going to night school. Sonoko (Sakai) is a high school senior at North Matsumoto High School in Nagano Prefecture. They meet, actually crash into each other , on a street. She leaves a book about the stars behind. Wataru manages to return the book to Sonoko. Later Sonoko finds out that Wataru uses her desk at night school. Sonoko and Wataru have feelings for each other. Sonoko's friends Madoka (Kyono) and Fuyumi (Mabuchi) are very good supporting characters. Yusuke (Kashiwabara) plays Sonoko's classmate and has a major crush on her. Yui Ryoko is Wataru's co worker at the metal shop and does not like Sonoko at all, she wants Wataru for herself. Sonoko, a rural high school student, notices stars drawn on her desk at school. It seems that sitting at that very same desk at night is Wataru, a poor teenage student, who with no parents is forced to work during the day and study at night. Then one day a chance encounter changes their lives in this nostalgic teenage love story. -- The "best onetime drama special" award goes to the sequel to Hakusen Nagashi aired Aug. 8 on the Fuji TV network. It reunited the capable cast and was one of the few dramas all year that looked at the nation's teens as normal people struggling to find themselves and not as the oversexed, violent teen monsters favored in so much network programming in 1997. [Regarding 1997 "Tellie Awards" by Wm. Penn of Daily Yomiuri] -- [FUJI CREATIVE]: Sonoko, a rural high school student, notices stars drawn on her desk at school. It seems that sitting at that very same desk at night is Wataru, a poor teenage student, who with no parents is forced to work during the day and study at night. Then one day a chance encounter changes their lives in this nostalgic teenage love story. (Nagase) is a high school student who dropped out but is now going back to night school. He works at a metal shop type of place. His father died and his mother abandoned him, so he is living alone, going to work and going to night school. Sonoko (Sakai) is a high school senior at North Matsumoto High School in Nagano Prefecture. They meet, actually crash into each other , on a street. She leaves a book about the stars behind. Wataru manages to return the book to Sonoko. Later Sonoko finds out that Wataru uses her desk at night school. Sonoko and Wataru have feelings for each other. Sonoko's friends Madoka (Kyono) and Fuyumi (Mabuchi) are very good supporting characters. Yusuke (Kashiwabara) plays Sonoko's classmate and has a major crush on her. Yui Ryoko is Wataru's co worker at the metal shop and does not like Sonoko at all, she wants Wataru for herself. Sonoko, a rural high school student, notices stars drawn on her desk at school. It seems that sitting at that very same desk at night is Wataru, a poor teenage student, who with no parents is forced to work during the day and study at night. Then one day a chance encounter changes their lives in this nostalgic teenage love story. 1999 SPECIAL (HAKUSEN NAGASHI AGE 21) - Features the former students and how they are doing with their careers or at college since graduating. [January 1999] 2001 SPECIAL (HAKUSEN NAGASHI AGE 23) - A change with Nagase's character as he plans to join a Japanese version of the Peace Corps. 2003 SPECIAL (HAKUSEN NAGASHI AGE 25) - This time Nagase's character is back from his assignment and how will things change two years later with his former classmates? [September 2003] 2005 SPECIAL (HAKUSEN NAGASHI AGE 27) - [From Daily Yomiuri, Televiews, Wm. Penn, September 30, 2005]: The final installment of Hakusen Nagashi, a popular Fuji series from the mid-1990s that has been brought back in sequel specials about every two years since, will air Oct. 7, 9:00-11:22 p.m. The heroine is now a school teacher and her high school love (Tomoya Nagase) is married to someone else, but the old crowd comes together when an observatory they loved as teens is about to be shut down. STARRING:
Nagase Tomoya, Sakai Miko, Kyono Kotomi, Kashiwabara Takashi,
MAbuchi Erika, Nakamura Ryu, Yui Ryoko, Hiraizumi Sei, Kimiko Yo, Matsumoto
Rumi, Yamamoto Kei, Shirakawa Kazuko and more. REVIEWS: This was a good drama about a group of friends in high school before their graduation and the specials follow what happens to each person since graduating. Quite enjoyable! - KNDY Copyright © 1993-2005
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